Women's Euro 2025 Draw Date Announced: England and Wales Secure Qualification, Switzerland Joins the Lineup

England have successfully qualified for Euro 2025 and will be looking to defend their title in Switzerland next year.

Wales Women will join England after qualifying for their first major tournament thanks to a play-off win over Republic of Ireland, but Scotland missed out after a play-off defeat to Finland and Northern Ireland will watch on from home after a heavy aggregate defeat to Norway.

Here's all you need to know about the 2025 Women's European Championship, with qualified teams set to find out their group-stage fate when the draw takes place in December.

The Women's Euros kicks off on Wednesday July 2, with the final on Sunday July 27.

The 16-team tournament will take place in eight venues across Switzerland. The final will be played in Basel.

Eight teams that progressed directly from the qualifying league stage have been joined by seven teams who qualified via the play-offs: Belgium, Finland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden and Wales. Switzerland automatically qualified as hosts.

The draw for the tournament proper takes place on December 16 2024 from 5pm GMT, with the 16 teams split into four groups of four.

Switzerland have been placed in Group A and the other sides have been allocated to pots in accordance with UEFA's overall Women's European Qualifiers league stage rankings.

England could face a heavyweight from pot 1, while there is a tantalising prospect of a group-stage showdown with Wales.

The top two teams from each final tournament group will progress to the knockout phase: quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final.

Pot 1 (positions 1 to 3 in UEFA rankings): Spain, Germany, France

Pot 2 (positions 4 to 7 in rankings): Italy, Iceland, Denmark, England

Pot 3 (positions 8 to 11 in rankings): Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Belgium

Pot 3 (positions 12 to 15 in rankings): Finland, Poland, Portugal, Wales

UEFA says that the three seeded teams from pot 1 will be drawn into positions one in Group B to D. The remaining 12 teams shall be allocated at random to positions 2 to 4 in each group.

The group positions determine the order of matches in the group stage, with the full match schedule due to be published shortly after the draw.

Group stage

Matchday 1

July 2
Group A: Switzerland vs A2 (Basel)
Group A: A3 vs A4 (Thun)

July 3
Group B fixture (Bern)
Group B fixture (Sion)

July 4
Group C fixture (St.Gallen)
Group C fixture (Geneva)

July 5
Group D fixture (Zurich)
Group D fixture (Lucerne)

Matchday 2

July 6
Group A: Switzerland vs A3 (Bern)
Group A: A2 vs A4 (Sion)

July 7
Group B fixture (Geneva)
Group B fixture (Thun)

July 8
Group C fixture (Basel)
Group C fixture (Lucerne)

July 9
Group D fixture (Zurich)
Group D fixture (St.Gallen)

Matchday 3

July 10
Group A: A4 vs Switzerland (Geneva)
Group A: A2 vs A3 (Thun)

July 11
Group B fixture (Bern)
Group B fixture (Sion)

July 12
Group C fixture (Zurich)
Group C fixture (Lucerne)

July 13
Group D fixture (Basel)
Group D fixture (St.Gallen)

Quarter-finals

July 16
QF1: Winner Group A vs Runner-up Group B (Geneva)

July 17
QF3: Winner Group C vs Runner-up Group D (Zurich)

July 18
QF2: Winner Group B vs Runner-up Group A (Bern)

July 19
QF4: Winner Group D vs Runner-up Group C (Basel)

Semi-finals

July 22
SF1: Winner QF3 vs Winner QF1 (Geneva)

July 23
SF2: Winner QF4 vs Winner QF2 (Zurich)

Euro 2025 final

July 27
Winner SF1 vs Winner SF2 (Basel)